lent nature; the child feels calm and composed, and not rarely falls into a quiet and prolonged sleep, from which it awakens more tranquil than ever.

As these are the remarks of a well-known clinician with an extensive practice with choreic children, his method of treatment lays claim to our confidence and invites a trial - The Therapeutic Gazette.

Electricity in General Practice.

Dr. Hughes Bennett has called attention lately to the need of greater study, in a scientific manner, of the numerous uses to which either current may be put in therapeutics. In diseases where functional activity is diminished the stimulating power of both currents is largely indicated. The obscurity attending many classes of nervous affections, such as atrophy, anesthesia, paralysis, sclerosis, etc., is no bar to the employment of electricity in an empirical manner, for the inhibited conduction and abnormal nutrition changes are favorably influenced thereby, and the catalytic effect of the galvanic current particularly is valuable in influencing the trophic elements of the tissues and facilitating absorption of morbid products. The sedative and alterative effect is also valuable in excited functional conditions for the relief of pain or spasm. The value of electricity is not simply a transient matter at the time of application, but its results are frequently permanent, hence its uses are far-reaching.Med. Summary.

Chloral Hydrate in the Treatment of Diphtheria, Croup, etc.

In a recent number of the Archives of Pedriatics we notice a book review, written by C. B. Galuntie, M. D., who proposes the internal administration of chloral hydrate as a specific in the treatment of diphtheria and pseudo membranous croup. The proposition is theoretically based upon the antiplastic property of the drug. Says the author (p. 113): "If an ounce of healthy human blood, as it flows from an open vein, be caught in a wineglass or vial containing one-fourth of an ounce of a ten per cent. solution of chloral hydrate, of the same temperature as the blood, and stirred sufficiently to intermix the two, no

proper coagulation will afterwards occur. Adding, "the fact is in my mind well established that it exerts a similar influence upon the living blood in the body." The author claims to have used chloral hydrate in over five hundred cases of diphtheria, with a mortality of less than two per cent.; also in eight cases of true croup, of which six recovered. In dosage, the author recommends, for adults, of chloral hydrate and pot. chlorate, six grains each, to be given every hour until hypnotism has been produced; to children, two grains of each, given every hour; and to infants, one-quarter of a grain each of chloral and of bromide of ammonium, with two drops of chloroform to be given every hour.-Med. Summary.

Chloroform as an Hæmostatic Agent.

Dr. Spaak, of Brussels, recommends in the Journal de Médecine de Bruxelles chloroform as an excellent hæmostatic agent, and especially eligible for all operations in the mouth and throat. He uses chloroform 2 parts to common water 200 parts. Spaak once removed a sequestrum from the lower jaw without losing, as it were, a drop of blood, a single irrigation with the chloroform solution having sufficed to suppress every tendency to bleed. The same irregation or gargles, consisting of the same chloroform-solution, Spaak uses also in the removal of a tonsil and other throat operations.

The perchloride of iron, the water of Paglia, alum, and all other known hæmostatics, have the advantage of producing an objectionable sanguineous clot. Chloroform acts quite differently; it stops the hemorrhage suddenly by immediately closing the blood vessels, even those of a considerable size.- The Therapeutic Gazette.

Witch Hazel as a Hæmostatic.

Dr. D. W. O. Bridges, in the Therapeutic Gazette, writes: "I was prompted to the use of witch hazel by Ringer, who recommended it in all varieties of passive hemorrhage, his favorable results having been obtained particularly in hæmaturia and bleeding piles. Within the past few years I have prescribed it for bleeding piles, menorrhagia and continuous bloody oozing

from the uterus four weeks after confinement. . In each of these cases there was no further trouble after twenty-four hours. The doses which I gave were somewhat smaller than those referred to in your article. I followed Ringer's plan of giving two drops of the fluid extract hourly. I was skeptical in regard to its use at first, but inasmuch as no other remedies were prescribed at the same time in the cases referred to, nor even rest enjoined, I was inclined to give witch hazel the credit. Other uses for which Ringer recommends its trial are pulmonary hemorrhages, hematemesis and variocele."-Med Summary.

Aletris Cordial.

I have prescribed Aletris Cordial to Miss K., age 30. Chronic endometritis of two years standing, accompanied by vetro-version. After correcting the latter, the Aletris cordial' was prescribed for one month, resulting in cure. Having used Aletris Farinosa for fifteen years past, I do not hesitate to recommend Aletris Cordial as the best preparation of that agent I have seen. Salem, Ohio. L. HENDERSON, M. D.

She Didn't Like It.

A lady in Wilkesbarre, Pa., who discovered that her daughter was being taught physiology and hygiene, addressed the following note to her teacher:

"Dear Miss K—: I don't want my daughter to be taught about her insides; it isn't right and I don't like It."

Dr. Goodell's Mistake.

In speaking of dilating the cervix for sterility, Dr. William Goodell says (Med. Bul.), that he had one woman under his care for two years who was most anxious to have children. Dur ing this time he cut the cervix, dilated a number of times, and did a variety of other things, without the least benefit. Finally it dawned upon his mind that the fault might lie with the husband, and an examination of the semen showed that, it did not contain a single spermatazoon.-Indiana Med. Jour.

NOTE. It is a fact that there are scores of impotent men in the world, and why women are nearly always blamed for sterile marriages is more than we can understand -[PITZER.]

Salicylate of Potassium in Acute Rheumatism.

Dr. E. L. Miller, in the Therapeutic Gazette, says that he has been using salicylate of potassium in cases of acute articular rheumatism with much satisfaction. In cases where the salicylate of sodium caused intense nausea and vomiting, the potassium salicylate was substituted, with a disappearance of the gastric irritation and a marvelous improvement in the condition of the patient. In one case, after twenty-four hours' use of the potassium salts, the joint pain ceased, and the temperature fell from 104.2° to 99.6°. He also says that it is of benefit in the fermentative diseases of the stomach. The formula he recommends is as follows: B. Acidi salicylatis, potassa bicarb., ãã zv.; aqua, 3ij. Solve et add:. tr. nucis vomicæ, spr. lav. co., aă 3ij.; syr. symplicis, q. s. ad. 3iv. M. Sig. A teaspoonful every three hours, well diluted.-Med. Summary.

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